Noun: sneck
| Singular | sneck |
| Plural | snecks |
Sample Sentences
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Lydia jerked about with the blind, fixing it first in one little sneck and then another, finally pulling it right to the bottom and pressing the button into the little brass hole. [1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 2:]
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The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine. [1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:]
Nouns inflected like sneck
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English snek, sneke, snekke, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots sneck. Possibly from Old English *snecce, from Proto-West Germanic *snakikā, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snak- (“to blow; sniff; nibble”) and thus related to English snatch. See: Middle English Nouns '
snek', Old English Nouns '
*snecce', English Nouns '
snatch'.